Course List

Frame Fitting Concepts

This course reviews basic concepts for fitting and adjusting a patient’s frames.

Evaluating Current Eye Wear Performance

Category: Patient Service and SellingCourse Length: 15 MIN

This course explains how Dispensers can evaluate a patient’s current eyewear performance and make recommendations based on their current eye wear.

Dispensing to Children

Category: Patient Service and SellingCourse Length: 20 MIN

This course describes key considerations for dispensing optical products to children. It reviews important facts about certain products best suited for children, various measurement techniques when working with children, and how to work with the parents of younger patients.

ANSI Standards

Category: Patient Service and SellingCourse Length: 20 MIN

This course describes ANSI standards and how these standards are applied to polycarbonate lens materials. It reviews important considerations for reviewing these standards when making a recommendation to the patient.

Visual Fatigue Solution Lenses

Category: ProductsCourse Length: 15 MIN

This course describes visual fatigue syndrome and how Essilor’s Visual Fatigue Solution lenses can be used to correct these symptoms in patients. Specifically, this course focuses on Essilor Anti-Fatigue lenses and Essilor Computer lenses.

Varilux

Category: ProductsCourse Length: 15 MIN

This course describes the different products within the Varilux brand and how each of these products can be dispensed to patients based on their specific visual need

Value AR Brands

Category: ProductsCourse Length: 15 MIN

This course reviews Essilor’s Value AR brands, SharpView and House AR ez. It describes how Value AR lenses compare to premium AR lenses and how to dispense Value AR lenses to patients.

Frame Shapes, RX and Lifestyle

Category: Patient Service and SellingCourse Length: 15 MIN

This course describes how to use information about the patients prescription, lifestyle, and facial shape to make an appropriate frame recommendation.

Needs Based Solutions

Category: Patient Service and SellingCourse Length: 20 MIN

This course provides an introduction to the Needs Based Solutions approach. It describes techniques for dispensing optical products to patients based on their unique needs.

Optical Principles of Contact Lenses

Category: Optical / MedicalCourse Length: 20 MIN

This course provides an overview of different types of contact lenses and describes how different types of contact lenses benefit the patient.

Magnification and Spectacle Lenses

Category: Optical / MedicalCourse Length: 30 MIN

This course explains how unbalanced magnification in lenses can create vision problems. It also identifies key elements of magnification and how to use a knowledge of these elements to balance magnification in a lens.

Understanding Prism in a Prescription

Category: Optical / MedicalCourse Length: 15 MIN

This course gives detailed information on how to read prism in a prescription and identify different types of prism. It also provides information on how to use a lensometer to identify the amount and base direction of prism in a lens